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omnes femineae et superiores interdum confertae; spicae herma- 
phroditae basi floribus femineis 1-3 instructae, deinde pergraciles 
et masculae, J-2-5 cm. longae, floribus masculis et femineis 
contiguis. Bractea 7-10 mm. longa, ad medium multifida, 
dentibus 3-6 mm. longis subulatis acutis pubescentibus, Ovarium 
pubescens. Styli 8 mm. longi, filiformes, longe ciliati. Capsula 
5 mm. diametro, pubescens. Semina 2:5 mm. longa, ellipsoidea, 
levia, glabra, brunnea. 
ROPICAL ArFRiIcA. South-eastern Congo: Sakania, F. A. 
Rogers 13879. 
Ficus cognata, NV. #. Brown [Moraceae]; affinis F, Spragueana, 
Mildbr. et Burr., sed cortice fusco, foliis majoribus obtusioribus, 
venis primariis subtus vix et secundariis haud prominentibus 
differt. 
Rami juniores plus minusve puberuli, demum glabri, cortice 
fusco. Yolia chartacea, glabra; petiolus 1-3-2-8 cm. longus; 
lamina 6-5-10-5 cm. longa, 2-5-5 em. lata, oblonga, vel leviter 
obovato-oblonga, apice obtusa, basi angustata, obtusa, costa 
subtus prominente convexa, venis primariis utrinque circiter 
10-15 levissime prominentibus secundariis haud prominentibus 
subtiliter reticulatis. Receptacula axillaria, globosa, 8-9 mm. 
diametro, pedunculis 2-4 mm. longis, dense albotomentosa : 
ostiola poriformia, linearia. Bracteae basilares 3, latissime 
ee baat s. 
PICAL ArFrica. Congo: Elisabethville, F. A. Rogers 
261 67. 
This species is also allied to F’. basarensis, Warb., but has 
much firmer leaves, with the veins much more finely reticulated, 
and the figs are shortly eae not cee as in that species. 
Acidanthera holostachya, E. Brown [{Iridaceae-Ixieae] ; 
comb. nov.—Lapeyrousia Jeep ree aler in Kew Bull. 1894, 
p. 391 
TROPICAL AFRICA. Nyasaland: Fwambo, Carson 14. — 
This and the following species were described by Mr. Baker 
under the genus Lapeyrousia, from which they differ in habit and 
by their undivided (not bifid) stigmas. The segments of the 
perianth are slightly more unequal in width than in most of the 
species of Acidanthera and these two species and a new one 
(A. lomatensis), described below seem to form a connecting link 
between Acidanthera and Gladiolus, for there are some species of © 
Gladiolus that have their perianth-segments searcely, if any, 
more unequal than they are in the type of the genus Acidanthera. 
The very long and slender tube of the flowers of the latter genus 
seems about the only character that really separates the two 
genera, and that is very marked in all the species, being very 
much longer than the spathes, whilst in Gladiolus it is rarely 
much longer and often shorter than the spathes. 
Acidanthera leptostachya, NV. £. Brown [Tridac cpg 
comb. nov.—Lapeyrousia leptostachya, Baker, Handb. Irid. p. 1 
Sourn Arrica. Transvaal: Lydenburg Div.; Macmac, Grud. 
